Without my intention, 2010 seemed to be the year of romance novels. I read 41 of them, many embarrassingly having to do with dukes (I don’t even have a fetish for dukes!), but what can I say? I love romances and considering I didn’t read my first one until I graduated from college, I’ve a lot of catching up to do!
In reviewing the list, 2010 also appeared to be the year of reading Kresley Cole as I discovered her Immortals After Dark series and devoured. I recommend them for highly diverting reads and days you don’t mind absolutely ignoring your partner, friends, dog, and the incessant call of dirty dishes. I have a feeling that Gena Showalter, a novelist I just started reading today, will be 2011’s answer to waiting for Cole’s next offering of IAD.
So what can you expect to see in 2011? I will attempt to improve upon the diversity in my reading, but we’ll see. The call of popular fiction is strong!
Here’s the main stats for 2010:
Vampires: 11 (again, a little embarrassing. Vamps have descended culturally since Anne Rice and I can’t say I don’t like it just a little).
18th Century Reads: 7
Writing Related: 4
French Related: 9
Classics: 4 (dismal!)
Epistolary: 2
Memoir: 2
100 89 in 2010
1. Covenant with the Vampire – Jeanne Kalogridis
2. Tempt me at Twilight – Lisa Kleypas
3. The Vampire Diaries – The Awakening – L.J. Smith
4. The Vampire Diaries – The Struggle – L.J. Smith
5. French Women Don’t Get Fat – Mireille Guiliano
6. The Vampire Diaries – The Fury – L.J. Smith
7. The Vampire Diaries – Dark Reunion – L.J. Smith
8. The Enchanter – Vladimir Nabokov (see, I do read classics! the novella that inspired Lolita)
9. To Desire a Devil – Elizabeth Hoyt
10. Duchess by Night – Eloisa James (laughed out loud with this one!)
11. Skinny Bitch – Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
12. Black Ice – Anne Stuart
13. The Crown – Deborah Chester
14. French Ways and Their Meaning – Edith Wharton
15. What happens in London – Julia Quinn
16. The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England from 1811-1901 – Kristine Hughes
17. Daily Candy A to Z: An Insider’s Guide to the Sweet Life
18. Devil in Winter – Lisa Kleypas
19. The Convenient Marriage – Georgette Heyer
20. Double Enchantment – Kathryne Kennedy
21. A Hunger like No Other – Kresley Cole
22. No Rest for the Wicked – Kresley Cole
23. Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night – Kresley Cole
24. Lord of Scoundrels – Loretta Chase
25. Whitney, My Love – Judith McNaught
26. These Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
27. Claiming the Courtesan – Anna Campbell
28. Dark needs at Night’s Edge – Kresley Cole
29. A Broom of One’s Own – Nancy Peacock
30. Women and Money – Suze Orman
31. A Duke of Her Own – Eloisa James
32. The Virginia Woolf’s Writers’ Workshop – Danell Jones
33. Pen on Fire – Barbara DeMarco Barrett
34. Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood
35. Kiss of a Demon King – Kresley Cole
36. Pleasure of a Dark Prince – Kresley Cole
37. Steamed – Katie Macalister
38. City of Darkness, City of Light – Marge Piercy (French Historical Oh-la-la Challenge #1)
39. Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies – Sex in the City in Georgian Britian – Hallie Rubenhold
40. The French Revoluion, Volume Two – Thomas Carlyle
41. Night Falls Darkly – Kim Lenox
42. Covet – J.R. Ward
43. Queen of Fashion – Caroline Weber (French Historical Oh-la-la Challenge #2)
44. Disquiet – Julia Leigh
45. Angelology – Danielle Trussoni
46. The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette – Carolly Erickson (French Historical Oh-la-la Challenge #3)
47. Candide and Other Stories – Voltaire
48. Walden – Thoreau
49. Scent of Darkness – Christina Dodd
50. Touch of Darkness – Christina Dodd
51. Into the Shadow – Christina Dodd
52. Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
53. Murder Game – Christine Feehan
54. The Confessions of Catherine De Medici – C.W. Gortner (French Historical Oh-la-la Challenge #4)
55. Lonely, a Memoir – Emily White
56. Highland Warrior – Monica McCarty
57. The Devil’s Queen: A novel of Catherine De Medici – Jeanne Kalogridis (French Historical Oh-la-la Challenge #5)
58. The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance, 2009
59. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
60. My Wicked Marquess -Gaelen Foley
61. Dark Lover – J.R. Ward
61. The Witch Must Die – Sheldon Cashdan
62. Not Quite a Husband – Sherry Thomas
63. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
64. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
65. Love in the Afternoon – Lisa Kleypas
66. Fallen Angels – Susannah Kells (French Historical Oh-la-la Challenge #6)
67. Wicked Plants: The weeds that killed Lincoln’s mother and other atrocities – Amy Stewart
68. The Visual History of Costume Accessories – Valerie Cumming
69. Life in Georgian England – E.N. Williams
70. The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
71. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Percy Parker – Leann Hieber
72. Insatiable – Meg Cabot
73. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – Rhoda Janzen
74. Smooth Talking Stranger – Lisa Kleypas
75. Dracula in Love – Karen Essex
76. A Kiss at Midnight – Eloisa James
77. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
78. Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
79. Think! – Michael R. LeGault
80. Sugar Daddy – Lisa Kleypas
81. A Wallflower’s Christmas -Kleypas
82. The Taming of the Duke – Eloisa James
83. Mad about the Duke – Elizabeth Boyle
84. Delicious – Sherry Thomas
85. Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763 – James Boswell
86. Devil’s Cub – Georgette Heyer
87. Spain, A History – Raymond Carr
88. Soulless – Gail Carrigner
89. Earl of Chesterfield, Selected Letters
90-100. Gar! I failed, reader, I miserably failed. The mid-eighties seem to be my threshold, as the last year I read around 80 something books while aiming for 100. Huh, maybe if I hadn’t taken off that off that month in November it would’ve worked out better.

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